Aluminium Toxicity and Its Tolerance in Plant: A Review

Rahman, Runa; Upadhyaya, Hrishikesh

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“…The third most prevalent metal element in the earth's crust is aluminum (Al), denoting nearly 8.1% of its content in weight [ 1 ]. Aluminum has no essential function in biological processes; instead, it elicits toxicity in plants when found in an excessive amount in the soil solution [ 2 , 3 ]. Several factors influence Al-induced toxicity in plants, such as pH of the soil, ionic species of Al, crop genotypes, and growth conditions [ 1 , 2 ].…”

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“…Aluminum has no essential function in biological processes; instead, it elicits toxicity in plants when found in an excessive amount in the soil solution [ 2 , 3 ]. Several factors influence Al-induced toxicity in plants, such as pH of the soil, ionic species of Al, crop genotypes, and growth conditions [ 1 , 2 ]. Al-stress causes numerous negative impacts, including but not limited to morpho-physiological, biochemical, and molecular alterations in plants, causing stunted growth, delayed developmental processes, and lower productivity of crops [ 2 , 3 ].…”

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Fluoride mitigates aluminum-toxicity in barley: morpho-physiological responses and biochemical mechanisms

2022

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Background To our knowledge, the role of exogenous fluoride (F–) on aluminum (Al)-stress mitigation in plants has not been investigated yet. In this experiment, barley (Hordeum vulgaris) seedlings were exposed to excessive Al3+ concentrations (aluminum chloride, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 mM) with and without fluoride (0.025% sodium fluoride) to explore the possible roles of fluoride on the alleviation of Al-toxicity. Results Overall, Al-stress caused inhibition of growth and the production of photosynthetic pigments. Principal component analysis showed that the growth inhibitory effects were driven by increased oxidative stress and the interruption of water balance in barley under Al-stress. Fluoride priming, on the other hand, enhanced growth traits, chlorophyll a and b content, as well as invigorated the protection against oxidative damage by enhancing overall antioxidant capacity. Fluoride also improved osmotic balance by protecting the plasma membrane. Fluoride reduced endogenous Al3+ content, restored Al-induced inhibition of glutathione-S-transferase, and increased the contents of phytochelatins and metallothioneins, suggesting that fluoride reduced Al3+ uptake and improved chelation of Al3+. Conclusions Aluminum chloride-induced harmful effects are abridged by sodium fluoride on barely via enhancing antioxidative responses, the chelation mechanism causing reduction of Al uptake and accumulation of barely tissues. Advanced investigations are necessary to uncover the putative mechanisms underpinning fluoride-induced Al-stress tolerance in barley and other economically significant crops, where our results might serve as a solid reference.

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“…Most of the regions where beans are currently grown are located in the tropics, and it is estimated that almost 50% of potentially arable land is acidic [ 32 ]. For example, the Latin American region alone accounts for 40% of acidic soils worldwide, which represents a limitation for common bean cultivation [ 33 ].…”

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Physiological Characteristics of Cultivated Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray) and Its Wild Relatives Grown at High Temperature and Acid Soil Stress Conditions in the Amazon Region of Colombia

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Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is sensitive to different types of abiotic stresses (drought, high temperature, low soil fertility, and acid soil), and this may limit its adaptation and consequently to its yield under stress. Because of this, a sister species, tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray), has recently gained attention in breeding for improved abiotic stress tolerance in common bean. In this study, we evaluated the adaptation of 302 accessions of tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray) and its wild relatives (grouped in four types of tepary bean genetic resource: cultivated, acutifolius regressive, acutifolius wild, tenuifolius wild) when grown under high temperature and acid soil conditions with aluminum toxicity in the Amazon region of Colombia. Our objective was to determine differences among four types of tepary bean genetic resource in their morpho-phenological, agronomic, and physiological responses to combined high temperature and acid soil stress conditions. We found that cultivated P. acutifolius var acutifolius presented a greater number of pods per plant, as well as larger seeds and a greater number of seeds per pod. Some traits, such as root biomass, days to flowering and physiological maturity, specific leaf area, and stomatal density, showed significant differences between types of tepary bean genetic resource, probably contributing to difference in adaptation to combined stress conditions of high temperature and acid soil conditions. The photochemical quenching (qP) was higher in cultivated P. acutifolius var. acutifolius, while energy dissipation by non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) in the form of heat and the coefficient of non-photochemical dissipation (qN) were higher in acutifolius regressive and tenuifolius wild accessions. We have identified 6 accessions of cultivated and 19 accessions of tenuifolius wild that exhibited grain yields above 1800 kg ha−1. These accessions could be suitable to use as parents to improve dry seed production of tepary bean under combined stress conditions of high temperature and acid soil.

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“…In acid soils, Al concentration increases by increasing Al 3+ solubility at the rhizosphere zone of the plant (Iqbal et al, 2012). Hence, Al toxicity primarily affects the plant root by inhibiting root growth (Foy et al 1978;Kochian et al, 2004) and inhibition of root elongation is the major symptom of aluminium toxicity (Ma and Furukawa, 2003;Rahman and Upadhyaya, 2021), which becomes apparent within a short period and even a small concentration of aluminium may induce root growth inhibition (Kochian et al, 2004). The roots are the most sensitive part of the plant (Eticha et al, 2005) and more recently, the transition zone or distal elongation zone of the root has been regarded as the most sensitive to aluminium (Li et al, 2016).…”

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Boron-mediated aluminium stress tolerance under aluminium toxicity at germination and early seedling stages of wheat

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Aluminium stress is one of the major problems of wheat production that significantly reduces the growth and development. Al toxicity can be recovered by exogenous application of different growth inducing nutrient elements. Thus, this study was conducted to evaluate the ameliaration effect of B under Al toxicity. Therefore, a petri dish and hydroponic culture experiment of wheat was conducted at Crop Physiology Laboratory, Department of Crop Botany, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh during the period from January 2016 to February 2017 to investigate the effect of boron on amelioration of aluminium toxicity in germination and seedling stage. Both the experiments were designed in completely randomized design (CRD) with three replications. The experiments were comprised of four levels of boron and aluminium concentrations viz., 0 µM B + 0 µM Al (control), 0 µM Al + 40 µM B, 200 µM Al + 40 µM B and 0 µM B + 200 µM Al and five wheat varieties viz; BARI Gom-23, BARI Gom-24, BARI Gom-28, BARI Gom-27 and BARI Gom-30. Results indicated that germination percentage, radicle and plumule length, root and shoot length, leaf length, fresh and dry mass plant-1 were greater in 0 µM Al + 40 µM B treated plants than 0 µM B + 200 µM Al induced conditions. It indicates that wheat seedlings are susceptible to aluminium and boron can ameliorate aluminium toxicity. However, among the studied varieties, the reduction of dry mass under aluminium stress was minimum in BARI Gom-28 followed by BARI Gom-23 indicating BARI Gom-28 was more tolerant to aluminium stress than the other varieties. On the contrary, the varieties, BARI Gom-27 and BARI Gom-24 were more susceptible to aluminium stress. So it indicates that aluminium stress severely affects the growth and developments especially in the sensitive varieties and tolerant varieties have the self-ability to grow and develop even under aluminium stress condition. Progressive Agriculture 32 (2): 127-139, 2021

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Aluminium Toxicity and Its Tolerance in Plant: A Review

Cited by 99 publications

References 205 publications

Fluoride mitigates aluminum-toxicity in barley: morpho-physiological responses and biochemical mechanisms

Fluoride mitigates aluminum-toxicity in barley: morpho-physiological responses and biochemical mechanisms

Physiological Characteristics of Cultivated Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray) and Its Wild Relatives Grown at High Temperature and Acid Soil Stress Conditions in the Amazon Region of Colombia

Boron-mediated aluminium stress tolerance under aluminium toxicity at germination and early seedling stages of wheat

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